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China Association for Promoting Democracy
China Association for Promoting Democracy
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	中国民主促进会
Traditional Chinese	中國民主促進會
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Zhōngguó Mínzhǔ Cùjìnhuì
Abbreviation
Simplified Chinese	民进
Traditional Chinese	民進
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Mínjìn
Tibetan name
Tibetan	ཀྲུང་གོ་དམངས་གཙོ་ཡར་སྐུལ་ལྷན་ཚོགས
Wylie
Transcriptions
Wylie	krung go dmangs gtso yar skul lhan tshogs
Zhuang name
Zhuang	Cunghgoz Minzcuj Coicaenh Hoih
Mongolian name
Mongolian Cyrillic	Дундад улсын ардчилал ийнор ахиулах эвлэл
Mongolian script	ᠳᠤᠮᠳᠠᠳᠤ; ᠤᠯᠤᠰ ᠤᠨ; ᠠᠷᠠᠳᠴᠢᠯᠠᠯ; ᠡᠶᠢᠨᠣᠷ ᠠᠬᠢᠭᠤᠯᠬᠤ; ᠡᠪᠯᠡᠯ
Uyghur name
Uyghur	جۇڭگو دېموكراتىيىنى ئىلگىرى سۈرۈش جەمئىيىتى‎
Latin Yëziqi
Transcriptions
Latin Yëziqi	Junggo démokratiyini ilgiri sürüsh jemiyiti
Yengi Yeziⱪ	Junggo démokratiyini ilgiri sürüsh jemiyiti
Manchu name
Manchu script	ᠮᡳᠨᠵᡳᠨ
Romanization	Minjin

China Association for Promoting Democracy

中国民主促进会
China Association for Promoting Democracy 中国民主促进会
Chairperson	Cai Dafeng
Founded	30 December 1945; 78 years ago
Headquarters	Beijing
Newspaper	Democracy Monthly
Membership (2023)	200,000
Ideology	Socialism with Chinese characteristics
National People's Congress (14th)	54 / 2,977
NPC Standing Committee	7 / 175
Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference	45 / 544 (Seats for political parties)
Website
	www.mj.org.cn
	Politics of China; Political parties; Elections;

The China Association for Promoting Democracy (CAPD) is one of the eight minor political parties in the People's Republic of China under the direction of the Chinese Communist Party.

It was formed on 30 December 1945, and mainly represents high-level intellectuals engaged in education and cultural publishing media. The CAPD is the fourth-ranking minor party in China. It currently has 58 seats in the National People's Congress, 7 seats in the NPC Standing Committee and 45 seats in the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Its current chairman is Cai Dafeng.

History

The party was formed on 30 December 1945 in Shanghai.^[1]^[2]

Organization

According to its constitution, the CAPD is officially committed to socialism with Chinese characteristics and upholding the leadership of the CCP.^[3] The CAPD is the fourth-ranking minor party in China.^[4] The party is a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.^[5]

The highest body of the CAPD officially is the National Congress, which is held every five years. The 13th National Congress, held in December 2022, was the most recently held Party Congress. The National Congress elects the Central Committee of the CAPD.^[3] At the end of 2023, the party had 29 province-level, 274 prefecture-level city, 54 county-level and 9,350 grassroot level organizations.^[6] The CAPD publishes a newspaper titled Democracy Monthly (民主).^[7]

Composition

The party mainly represents high-level intellectuals engaged in education and cultural publishing media.^[1] At the end of 2023, the CAPD had more than 200,000 members, of which 70.8 were middle- and high-level intellectuals in the fields of education, culture, publishing, media, and science and technology.^[6]

Chairpersons

No.		Took office	Left office	Ref.
1	Ma Xulun 马叙伦	April 1950	July 1966	^{[citation needed]}
2	Zhou Jianren 周培源	October 1979	July 1984	^{[citation needed]}
3	Ye Shengtao 叶圣陶	December 1984	June 1987	^{[citation needed]}
4	Lei Jieqiong 雷洁琼	June 1987	December 2, 1997	^{[citation needed]}
5	Xu Jialu 许嘉璐	December 1997	December 2007	^{[citation needed]}
6	Yan Junqi 严隽琪	December 2007	December 2017	^{[citation needed]}
7	Cai Dafeng 蔡达峰	December 6, 2017	Incumbent	^[8]

References

^ ^a ^b Benewick, Robert; Donald, Stephanie Hemelryk (2009). The State of China Atlas: Mapping the World's Fastest-Growing Economy (1st ed.). University of California Press. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-520-25610-1. JSTOR 10.1525/j.ctv1xxv63. OCLC 948690686.
^ "新闻背景：中国民主促进会" [News background: China Association for Promoting Democracy]. Xinhua News Agency. 18 December 2022. Retrieved 5 December 2023.
^ ^a ^b "中国民主促进会章程" [Constitution of the China Association for Promoting Democracy]. China Association for Promoting Democracy. 19 December 2022. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
^ "我国八个民主党派排序考". Lishui Municipal Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang. 9 December 2012. Archived from the original on 4 March 2014. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
^ Liao, Xingmiu; Tsai, Wen-Hsuan (2019). "Clientelistic State Corporatism: The United Front Model of "Pairing-Up" in the Xi Jinping Era". China Review. 19 (1): 31–56. ISSN 1680-2012. JSTOR 26603249.
^ ^a ^b "中国民主促进会简介" [Introduction to the China Association for Promoting Democracy]. China Association for Promoting Democracy. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
^ "民主杂志社". www.mj.org.cn. Archived from the original on 23 January 2019. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
^ "蔡达峰任民进中央主席" (in Chinese). 凤凰网. 6 December 2017. Archived from the original on 6 December 2017. Retrieved 18 March 2018.